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    Team DeSantis Wages War on Liberal Media in the Wake of Trump

    Christina Pushaw is not afraid to get down in the dirt with reporters who go after her boss.  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ press secretary has repeatedly called out the press for “bad-faith coverage” and “skewed” or biased reporting, such as when the Associated Press implied in August that DeSantis was promoting monoclonal antibody treatment for…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    In Breach of Norms, Biden Fires Trump Appointees From Government Panels

    President Joe Biden recently purged his predecessor’s appointees from government boards and commissions, in what critics call an unprecedented break with tradition. Appointees named by Donald Trump while he was president, among them former senior presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway and former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, were told bluntly by letter to resign or…
    Douglas Blair
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    Liberals Blame Trump, Capitalism for Family Alienation

    In my last column, I published comments written by New York Times subscribers about how proud they were of their children for deciding not to have children of their own. Though they acknowledged how much they ached to be grandparents, they nevertheless reveled in the fact that this would never happen. Why did these parents…
    Dennis Prager
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    News Outlets That Criticized Trump for Targeting Reporters Mostly Silent About ‘Unmasking’ of Tucker Carlson

    The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN strongly objected and protested when the Trump administration obtained reporters’ phone records as part of an investigation into the leak of classified information. Yet those same news organizations aren’t willing to stand with popular Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson, who the National Security Agency “unmasked”…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Had Plan to Bring Internet to Cuba, Rubio Says

    Well before a renewed freedom movement emerged in Cuba, President Donald Trump had a plan to extend internet access to the island nation, Sen. Marco Rubio says.  “We were already looking at how to provide internet access,” Rubio, R-Fla., told The Floridian, a news website, in an interview published with video Thursday. “We had made…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Brands Barr, McConnell RINOs for Dismissing Claims of ‘Rigged’ 2020 Election

    One day after blasting his former attorney general, William Barr, as a “RINO,” former President Donald Trump expressed regret for supporting Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. Trump issued statements on Sunday and Monday in response to an article The Atlantic published, written by ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl, that said McConnell, of Kentucky, had urged…
    Fred Lucas
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    Another Trump Narrative Collapses: Why the Media Jumps to Conclusions

    When law enforcement cleared protesters from Lafayette Square last year, left-leaning media outlets immediately ran with the narrative that President Donald Trump had ordered the move so he could get a photo-op in front of nearby St. John’s Church. But a new inspector general’s report reveals the truth: Trump had nothing to do with the…
    Douglas Blair
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    Trump Park-Clearing Story Latest in Long Line of Media Narratives to Fall Apart

    “A narrative we thought we knew is not the reality.” That sentence, uttered this week by NBC News national security reporter Ken Dilanian, could be applied to any number of long-standing “accepted as fact” news stories in the Trump era that later proved false. But in this case, Dilanian referred to a specific media narrative…
    Tim Murtaugh
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    Trump Allies Join Forces to Fight for ‘America First’ Agenda

    Brooke Rollins spent three years working for President Donald Trump in high-profile White House roles at the Office of American Innovation and the Domestic Policy Council. Now, she leads a new group of Trump administration alumni to defend the former president’s policy accomplishments and prepare for the future. The mission of the America First Policy…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Trump Allies to Counter Left, Block Biden by Going to Court

    A group of former Trump administration officials have formed America First Legal to stop the Biden administration’s executive actions and counter the radical left’s plans to transform our country. Led by Stephen Miller, former White House senior adviser and director of speechwriting, America First Legal promises to turn the tables on the left, which used…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Broadcast Network News Covers Biden Positively in Contrast to Trump, Study Finds

    The three broadcast TV networks have done an about-face in their coverage of the president since Joe Biden took office, airing mostly positive stories, compared with their mostly negative treatment of his predecessor, Donald Trump, a new study found. During the first 80 days of the Biden administration, the broadcast networks’ evening newscasts gave it…
    Steven Hall
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    Why Biden’s Blaming Trump for Border Crisis Has Zero Credibility

    No one believes the Biden White House’s feeble attempt to blame the Trump administration for the current border crisis. As the Biden administration unsuccessfully tries to deflect blame for the humanitarian disaster now occurring before America’s eyes, despite its directed media blackout, the administration is only succeeding at showing it knows it has a problem….
    Chad Wolf
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    Biden, Not Trump, Driving Border Crisis

    Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas summed up our border crisis in a statement he released March 16: “We are on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the last 20 years.” According to The Wall Street Journal, Border Patrol agents made about 75,000 arrests of migrants crossing illegally…
    Star Parker
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    Pompeo Cites Top Foreign Policy Achievements of Trump Presidency

    Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo played a role in some of the biggest foreign policy accomplishments of the Trump administration. He joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the impact of the Abraham Accords—pacts involving the normalization of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Sudan—and the moving of the U.S….
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Angry at Trump, Liberals Propose Unconstitutional Bill to Punish Him

    Democrats have twice impeached Donald Trump in the House and twice failed to convict him in the Senate. They’re angry about failing, and double angry about failing twice. That’s understandable. Nobody likes to fail. But they’ve now fallen into the trap of letting their anger get the better of their reason and their oaths to uphold…
    GianCarlo Canaparo
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    Liberals Claim to Support Independent Agencies. So Why Is Biden Firing Trump Appointees?

    Conservatives have long criticized the notion of independent executive branch agencies.  Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution provides that “[t]he executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America”—not some executive power, but all of it, unless the Constitution explicitly provides otherwise.  That is often referred to as the…
    John G. Malcolm
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    8 Takeaways as Senate Again Fails to Convict Trump, This Time With 7 GOP Votes

    With seven Republicans voting with all Democrats to convict, the Senate nevertheless voted Saturday afternoon to acquit former President Donald Trump, in his second impeachment trial, of a single charge of incitement of insurrection. Americans, and apparently most senators, were under the impression that the Saturday session would feature closing arguments and perhaps a verdict. …
    Fred Lucas
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    Journalist Compares Covering Trump to Fighting Nazis

    One of the easiest things to predict about the end of Donald Trump’s presidency was that anti-Trump journalists would eventually feel a heated rush of nostalgia about their heroic crusade to keep democracy from dying. But it came earlier than expected. Alexander Nazaryan of Yahoo News wrote a piece for the Democrat-endorsing website The Atlantic…
    Tim Graham
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    4 Takeaways From Democrats’ Second Full Day of Arguments to Disqualify Trump

    In a second full day of making their case for disqualifying Donald Trump from running again for president, House Democrats reminded the Senate of the Charlottesville riot in 2017 and a plot last year to kidnap Michigan’s governor.  The nine House impeachment managers, or prosecutors, kept most of the focus Thursday on a mob’s Jan. 6 …
    Fred Lucas
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    6 of Democrats’ Arguments for Disqualifying Trump From Seeking Office Again

    House prosecutors argued Wednesday that former President Donald Trump not only is responsible for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol but was involved in a “premeditated” effort after he “ran out of nonviolent measures” to keep power.  Day Two of Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial was the first full day for Democrats’ House impeachment…
    Fred Lucas
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